Chris Cohen, Torrey Pine.

Any day containing new Chris Cohen is a good day indeed, and while Torrey Pine first sprung up a few ago, today, it doubtless sounds fresh enough to bedew an entire springtime: from the lysergic keys to Cohen’s eternally hypnagogic vocal, were it a physical entity rather than the abstract concept that each and every song is by default and design likewise, it would surely radiate a thoroughly warming hum. It doesn’t, obviously, instead steadily building from the low-key, yet eminently hummable, toward a bracing crescendo that’s equal parts psychedelic and psychotic; Cohen’s vocal all the more robust than ever previously, but not to the extent that it doesn’t still sound as comparatively inconsequential as a quarter dollar superglued to the depths of the Grand Canyon. Which is, in and of itself, far greater a compliment to the intense sonic maelstrom that complements it, as opposed to any form of metaphorical slight, of course…

Torrey Pine is lifted from Cohen’s forthcoming sophomore full-length, As If Apart, which is available from May 6th via Captured Tracks.